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authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>2012-05-07 12:10:47 +0800
committerLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>2012-06-04 13:49:34 -0300
commit783e9b4826b95e53e33c42db6b4bd7d89bdff147 (patch)
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parent68f4730c714b7c30ca912d7c03e199f181739da0 (diff)
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introduce a new monitor command 'dump-guest-memory' to dump guest's memory
The command's usage:
   dump-guest-memory [-p] protocol [begin] [length]
The supported protocol can be file or fd:
1. file: the protocol starts with "file:", and the following string is
   the file's path.
2. fd: the protocol starts with "fd:", and the following string is the
   fd's name.

Note:
  1. If you want to use gdb to process the core, please specify -p option.
     The reason why the -p option is not default is:
       a. guest machine in a catastrophic state can have corrupted memory,
          which we cannot trust.
       b. The guest machine can be in read-mode even if paging is enabled.
          For example: the guest machine uses ACPI to sleep, and ACPI sleep
          state goes in real-mode.
  2. If you don't want to dump all guest's memory, please specify the start
     physical address and the length.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/elf.h b/elf.h
index e1422b81ee..9c9acfaf75 100644
--- a/elf.h
+++ b/elf.h
@@ -1037,6 +1037,11 @@ typedef struct elf64_sym {
 
 #define EI_NIDENT	16
 
+/* Special value for e_phnum.  This indicates that the real number of
+   program headers is too large to fit into e_phnum.  Instead the real
+   value is in the field sh_info of section 0.  */
+#define PN_XNUM         0xffff
+
 typedef struct elf32_hdr{
   unsigned char	e_ident[EI_NIDENT];
   Elf32_Half	e_type;